Introducing the Sonics

Artist: The Sonics
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 090771619822
EAN: 0090771619822
ASIN: B00019PDUM

Release Date: 2004-02-24

Introducing the Sonics

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Tracks:

The Witch
You Got Your Head On Backwards
Im A Man
On The Road Again
Psycho / Love Lights
Im Going Home
High Time
Im A Rolling Stone
Like No Other Man
Maintaining My Cool
Bama Lama Bama Loo
Leave My Kitten Alone
Dirty Old Man
Diddy Wah Diddy

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Album Description

Cornerstone of the crunchy sixties' Northwest sound, direct from the Jerden mono masters! The Sonics blow-torched Tacoma in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind-numbing assortment of Sonics classics: "You Got Your Head On Backwards," "Like No Other Man," "Psycho," "The Witch," and simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like "I'm A Man," "Diddy Wah Diddy," and much more.

Album Description

Cornerstone of the crunchy sixties' Northwest sound, direct from the Jerden mono masters! The Sonics blow-torched Tacoma in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind-numbing assortment of Sonics classics, 'You Got Your Head On Backwards', 'Like No Other Man', 'Psycho', 'The Witch,' & simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like 'I'm A Man', 'Diddy Wah Diddy', & much more. Features 15 tracks including 4 bonus tracks, 'Bama Lama Bama Loo', 'Leave My Kitten Alone', 'Dirty Old Man', & 'Diddy Wah Diddy'. Sundazed. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

akk no.......2006-09-26

This is absolutely NOT where you should start out listening to the Sonics. It contains only two cuts from their peak days: "Psycho" and "The Witch," which were leased from Etiquette Records. Every else here is from their tragic waning days, when they switched to the Jerden label, went out into the big world, got their sound cleaned up, lost their way and fell apart.

It's very simple: Their great stuff was on Etiquette Records. Get the Norton reissues of their first two albums, "Here are the Sonics" and "Boom," or the ACE compilation "Psycho-Sonic" (for stereo mixes).

There are a couple other decent things here, but even the best pales against the other stuff.

Wake up America.......2005-05-11

This is the real deal! I hate the music that is being pumped out today. Everything is processed. I switched to blues in the 80's because the only bands going were the Pistols and the Ramones. Twenty years later and the song remains the same. You have to own this; it is the real deal.

Where it all comes from.......2004-11-18

With the rash of "garage revival" bands out there these days (you know, the bands with moptops, tight pants, and names that start with "the"), I wonder how many people have ever heard music like this. This is what Jack White probably wants his band to sound like, and although he does an admirable job on his earlier work, I'm sorry to say that he doesn't quite make it (not to knock him though- he has his own sound and I like it). This is the original garage sound, rough raw and hungry. Three chords, distorted guitar, and sexual frustration combined into something far greater than the sum of its parts. Long before "punk rock" became a genre, these guys were making punk rock.

I'm stunned that I'm the first person to review this, but I'll say that if you somehow stumble onto this page, you'd really do yourself a favor picking up a copy. If you only know this kind of music from the late-90s-early-00s revival bands, you're in for a shock.

Rock on--

-HW

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